Odisha CM Naveen Patnaik on Wednesday wrote to all the chief ministers in the country, urging them to build a consensus over procurement of the Covid vaccines by the Centre for distribution among the states.
In the letter, Patnaik wrote that no state is safe unless all the states adopt vaccination as the topmost priority and execute it on war-footing.
"But this cannot be a battle among the states to compete against each other to procure vaccines," he added.
Patnaik said that under these circumstances, the best option available is for the Centre to procure vaccines and distribute them among the state so that the people are vaccinated at the earliest.
Patnaik said that he has already raised the matter with the Centre and also spoken to a few chief ministers.
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